So my friend Archer from high school, the one who invented the Shotgun game, I hung out with him today, and he hitched me a ride out to my house. I was meeting my parents there for Diwali. I’m getting off-topic.

We went to the Apple store. Our friend Marc works there, so he told Archer there was a job opening. We ended up spending a few hours in the store, just hanging out and catching up (I hadn’t seen either of these guys in months). I met Rob, who is a reader, and although I didn’t get to talk to him much, he seemed pretty cool, so I just wanted to give a shout-out to him here. I /think/ he’s (one of?) the resident “Mac Genius”(s), which basically means he’s one of the guys at the store who knows Macs inside and out.

I really like how simply the Mac store is laid out - it’s almost like they let the products do the visual work of selling themselves by making the furniture plain.

The worst part of the trip was seeing all the iPods out on the tables again. I’m not a fan of the Minis at all, but the regular iPods are awesome, and they’ve gotten the new models in that display photos. Every time I visit the Apple Store, I want an iPod a little more. That price tag owns me every time, though.

I also got to play with the massive monitor they have set up there - it’s just huge. I love it. There’s a screensaver with fish, and if you mounted it in a wall behind a sheet of plexiglass, I’d swear you could trick people into thinking it was a real aquarium. It looks /good/.

So the Apple Store is a fun place. Moving on because I’m brutally tired …

Today is also Diwali! Important holiday for Hindus. That’s why I made the extra effort to make the trip home - it’s good to spend this holiday with your family. My parents came in from New York this morning, so I was home to meet them when they arrived. It was good times. ^_^

Happy Diwali!

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